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Like you, "back in 2004 I began blogging by borrowing other bloggers images and having others borrow mine. All that was important was that they credited me and properly linked to the post so that the traffic would flow through."

And like you I let people use under the terms of my creative commons license.

However - I have a caveat: I only allow my work to be used freely by sites without advertising. I don't wish for anyone else to profiteer from me without my knowledge or permission.

Where I differ from you is that my own site remains defiantly noncommercial.

Also, these days, because it's not difficult to be aware of basic copyright law, especially if you have been blogging for 5 years, I ask before I use a picture that is not mine. In fact I guess I was the only person in the world to ask permission from the owner of a random photo before I used it in a Facebook meme where people make up album covers.

Like Cybele above, I rigorously defend any of my photographs that are stolen by commercial sites and will continue to do so. The issue is not black and white and just because its on the internet, it doesn't mean we are automatically entitled to make it our own.